As Twitchy reported yesterday, Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack approached some senators after yesterday’s vote to block a proposal to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood from moving forward. His question was an easy yes or no: Have you seen the undercover videos?
“I have not seen them,” Senator Jeanne Shaheen told him. “I have not seen them, no,” admitted Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania.
Plenty of senators seem unconcerned about the videos, which have shown Planned Parenthood doctors haggling over harvested organs and describing special, less “crunchy” abortion procedures that can not just preserve as many organs as possible but produce an especially valuable intact fetus.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards is tired of the Center for Medical Progress releasing the videos one by one, “water torture” style, and, taking a cue from an article in the Wall Street Journal, wants them released all at once.
"If you’re concerned about what’s going on, you should release all at once. Leaking one at a time, that’s politics." http://t.co/1Zp8Lam7eA
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) August 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/danieljpayne/status/629009488813670400
@danieljpayne @RameshPonnuru Well, there was that little matter of a court injunction holding up releases.
— Austrian Anarchy (@AustrianAnarchy) August 5, 2015
@danieljpayne @seanmdav "Release all the videos!"
/Files suit to enjoin release of the videos
— (Not) Bill O'Reilly (@NotThatBill) August 5, 2015
@danieljpayne @BrowningMachine I believe the timing is a long slow bleed out, keeping it in the news. Where it belongs.
— Charles Pence (@charles_pence) August 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/bimbim1199/status/629023140090376192
https://twitter.com/MsTriscuit/status/629023095076982785
https://twitter.com/DerekThornton71/status/629025233857417216
@danieljpayne @seanmdav Spoken like someone who REALLY wants to know how much dirt they have on her.
— (((Dal Jeanis))) (@DalJeanis) August 5, 2015
Why is she linking to the Wall Street Journal? Because the paper managed to track down an “ethicist” who denounced the “water torture” method of releasing them.
Ethicist denounces ‘Water Torture’ release of Planned Parenthood videos. http://t.co/9jVuFBbQhy
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/MadWolfJohn/status/629038559731826688
@WSJ "Medical Ethicist" Troubled More By Story Cut Up Into Parts Than Same Done To Babies
— Razor (@hale_razor) August 5, 2015
"You should release them all at once so we can sweep this under the rug quickly and move on."
Nice try. @WSJ http://t.co/YWVbQuxnVI
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) August 5, 2015
@JonahNRO @neontaster @FormerlyFormer @WSJ "leaking"? Come on. Words mean things.
— Rev Snow (@RevSnow67) August 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/Mattfobrien/status/628761754693160960
@WSJ I gather you never watched the drip, drip, drip @AndrewBreitbart tactic used so successfully. Sucks to be you.
— Leigh (@sybilll) August 5, 2015
@danieljpayne @seanmdav This cannot be relegated to "Outrage of the Day" status. Make. it. hurt.
— Paul J9 (@Paul_J9) August 5, 2015
It seems odd that Richards is concerned that the videos be released all at once, considering that Planned Parenthood insists they’re “bogus.”
Facts shmacks. Anti-abortion GOPers used bogus videos as flimsy excuses to attack Planned Parenthood—truth be damned: http://t.co/gQ0z4XtlCY
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) August 5, 2015
Where does that link lead? To the respected GazetteXtra, in which Jason Stanford — who discloses that he “used to work for Planned Parenthood and consider[s] Richards a friend” — claims that “the easily debunked and obviously edited videos … proved nothing more than Planned Parenthood executives eat salad and drink wine.” Oh, and sometimes they “donate fetal tissue for research.”
@PPact so those aren't PP execs & body part sorters in the videos?
— Bob Sullivan (@BobSullivan87) August 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/danm414/status/629032327021240320
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